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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Local students are getting a unique opportunity to learn about the blues directly from musicians who visit their schools to perform and educate. This initiative is part of the "Blues ...

The Texas Legislature designated the Grimes County Community as “The Blues Capital of Texas” in 2005 ...

For artists like Matt Schofield, Eric Gales, Shemekia Copeland, Jeff Taylor, and D.K. Harrell, blues is more than a genre; it’s inheritance, influence, and life itself. In an exclusive interview with ...

Add independent.com on Google Add the SB Independent as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This presentation brought to you by the Santa Barbara Blues Society’s President ...

The youngest band to perform at the recent Baton Rouge Blues Festival, the Juke Joint Juniors feature middle and high school students enrolled in the West Baton Rouge Museum’s Blues After School ...

pt. I. History, Development, and Influence. 1. African Influences: A Pre-history. 2. The New World. 3. Some Highly Musical Places. 4. The Classic Era. 5. Hoodoo ...

With “traditional” blues as their foundation, some artists and educators working to introduce the music to the next ...

I have been a lover of music for my entire life and this year I wanted to dive deep into music history that helped to shape the genres that we listen to today. The Blues Trail was created in 2006 and ...

In 1963, a jazz-obsessed, college-educated black Beat poet in New York wrote a "theoretical endeavor" linking the sociopolitical and the sonic. A... The year 1963 saw the March on Washington, the ...

Black History Month is in full swing, and the St. Louis Blues are honoring the occasion with a variety of initiatives throughout the month of February. Here are the most prominent Black History Month ...